Dawn Of The Dead London style, marks a new dawn of zombie film

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2016)

Danny Trainspotting Boyle proves he can make all kinds of stuff, a director of versatility. Here he's made a very impressive, unsettling and believable film, a more serious take on the zombie films, we've grown to know and love. Coma patient Murphy, wakes up on the blackest of days, to find good ole London, void of human life. Some wide spread virus epidemic (though we don't find out it's cause) now in it's fourth week (hence the title) has spread through London, where bitten humans take zombie like form, but are much faster and agile, where only a small number of the unbitten and uninfected remain. Murphy meets up with a woman survivor, a teen girl and her "old softie" father, and a family type friendship forms. It mirrors some similarities of the Dawn Of The Dead remake, only this is a much smarter and better film. After a tragedy of misfortune within the group, they are taken in by an army of organized soldiers, who are dealing with the crisis, their way, where the film then draws shades of the original Day Of The Dead, even one scene kind of in unforgettably bad taste, with the woman and teen girl, are all doled up, for the men's pleasure. One other scene stays with me, played against the haunting beautiful score where 4 horses freely gait about. On the whole, this is one movie, like I said, which really impresses more than anything, a more seriously approached and well utilized film, that just doesn't go straight for the jugular. It has some truly scary moments too. Murphy is great, where the others do well too, but it's his intensely engaging performance that'll grab the viewer's eye, two years before he played that particularly nasty passenger in Red Eye. Watch for a kind of after ending, the credits.